# Report 2021-10

## News

 - [Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked](https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xpm8/company-that-routes-billions-of-text-messages-quietly-says-it-was-hacked)
 - [Firefox now shows ads as sponsored address bar suggestions](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-now-shows-ads-as-sponsored-address-bar-suggestions/)
 - [Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/15/privacy-fears-moscow-metro-rolls-out-facial-recognition-pay-system)
 - [Nine UK schools start scanning children’s faces to take their lunch money](https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/17/scotland-facial-recognition-software-being-used-in-north-ayrshire-schools-15437868/)
 - [Location Data Firm Got GPS Data From Apps Even When People Opted Out](https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgmqz/huq-location-data-opt-out-no-consent)
 - [Here's the FBI's Internal Guide for Getting Data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vqkv/how-fbi-gets-phone-data-att-tmobile-verizon)
 - [iPhone Apps Can Tell Many Things About You Through the Accelerometer](https://www.mysk.blog/2021/10/24/accelerometer-ios/)  

## Data Breaches

 - [BrewDog exposed data of 200,000 shareholders for over a year](https://www.zdnet.com/article/brewdog-exposed-data-of-200000-shareholders-for-over-a-year/)
 - [Sensitive data of 400,000 German students exposed by API flaw](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sensitive-data-of-400-000-german-students-exposed-by-api-flaw/)

## Paper/Report

 - [Android Mobile OS Snooping By Samsung,Xiaomi, Huawei and Realme Handsets](https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf)
 - [Gummy Browsers: Targeted Browser Spoofing against State-of-the-Art Fingerprinting Techniques](https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10129)
